Lebrecht’s Album of the Week: Britten, Hindemith, RVW, Martinu (Claves)
It has been a while since the viola last had a powerful advocate. Timothy Ridout, 24 and British, is being touted as the next star…
Browsing: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphonies 3 and 4 (Hyperion)
With Australia in flames, Italian cities choked by smog and parts of Canada enjoying an unseasonal thaw, I’m listening to Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Pastoral Symphony,…
Rebecca Clarke: Viola sonata (Hyperion)
There are so many misnomers about Ms Clarke that it’s worth taking a sentence or two to put them straight. Clarke (1886-1979) is widely regarded…
20th Century British Art Song: An Introduction
At the turn of the 20th century, the tradition of the drawing-room ballad still held sway. Songs of little literary value by Liza Lehmann, Maude…
Chandos’s Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel Notable
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel (Chandos) James Gilchrist, tenor; Anna Tilbrook, piano; Philip Dukes, viola At the turn of the 20th century, the world was…
Lebrecht Weekly – Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphonies 2 and 8 (Onyx)
Unless you live in England – and, in most of the country, even if you do – you will have few opportunities to hear live…
Lebrecht Weekly – Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphonies 2 and 8 (Onyx)
Unless you live in England – and, in most of the country, even if you do – you will have few opportunities to hear live…
